Isabel Emslie Hutton Part IV Introduction In the final part of the blog on this remarkable woman who seems to have packed more into one lifetime than is humanly possible, I want to address some of her activities during World War II and immediately afterwards. In 1938, Tom Hutton was promoted to Major […]
Isabel Emslie Hutton -Pioneering Psychiatrist and Beyond Marriage and Civilian Life When Emslie married Major Thomas J Hutton on 16th August 1921 in St Cuthbert’s Parish Church Edinburgh, the only option available to a woman doctor was to become a General Practitioner. She wanted to continue in psychiatry but found the outlook to be ‘gloomier […]
Isabel Emslie Hutton – Part II Service with the Scottish Womens Hospitals. (SWH) Introduction Though I am now so familiar with the work of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals that their accomplishments almost seem ‘normal’, nothing could be further from the truth. These women experienced enormous hardship, trauma and culture shock. Whether working-class cook, aristocratic ambulance […]
Rebecca Strong Part II Influences from St Thomas’s Hospital, London and the Royal Victoria Hospital Netley. Introduction Following on from my previous blog on Rebecca Strong, First Matron of Dundee Royal Infirmary and Glasgow Royal Infirmary, I became so fascinated by her story, I continue to research her life. A further visit to the London […]
Isabel Emslie Hutton (1887-1960) Introduction I recently met someone at a conference who shares an interest in Isabel Emslie. I was struck by the fact that in conversation, she invariably referred to her […]